Brazil, Chile and Argentina
To Sign Peru Pipeline Protocol

By

Bernd Radowitz Dow Jones Newswires

Updated June 3, 2005 10:25 p.m. ET

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay are set to sign a memorandum of intent Tuesday to study building a regional energy loop in which natural gas from Peru's large Camisea field would flow via pipelines to Chile and from there to neighboring countries, an official at Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry said late Friday.